10 Reasons You Should Love Blogging

Blog posts are a great way to get recognized within your community and share your voice. Here are the top 10 reasons you should love writing blog posts.

Anyone can make one:For better or worse, anyone can write a blog post about anything they want. Everyone has a voice and the best voices will rise to the top.

The writer can show their personality:In blog posts, the writer has more leeway to add in their voice and personality than other types of writing.

Blogs are a great form of mass communication:You can help people, learn new things, entertain your audience—the possibilities are endless and amazing. Blogging opens up all of these to a very wide audience.You can make money:Get the right blog going and you can make a lot of money through advertising and sponsored posts.

It allows people to craft better thoughts:Instead of reading haphazard, uneducated Facebook statuses, it’s much better to see people’s thought process in a well-written blog post.

You can establish a community:Blogging allows you to connect with other individuals who share the same interests. Sharing ideas and opinions within your community helps establish yourself as a thought leader.

Good for SEO:Keeping content on your site fresh and relevant, you can use your blog to boost the search engine ranking (SEO) of your site and your business.It brings people back to your site:If your blog is strong enough and updated regularly, people will come back looking for more and bring traffic back to your site as well.

It’s free:It costs you a grand total of zero dollars to post to the blog, so if you have something to say, there’s nothing to stop you.You can establish yourself as a thought leader:A blog is a great place for your original thoughts, and it can be a wonderful way to show off your individuality. If people like your ideas, you can become a thought leader in your industry!

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The window
of opportunity for marketers to engage their web visitors has shrunk drastically.

According
to a 2015
study by Microsoft Corp
., our attention spans have been whittled down to
just eight seconds. The culprit? Our digital lifestyles. Thank emojis and thank
Twitter for their 140 characters limitation.

Eight
Seconds. Yes, that’s one second less
than a
goldfish. And we’re all in same fishbowl; the
decrease was seen across all age groups and genders in the study. There was an
upside though: our ability to multitask is increasing.

As marketers,
what do we do with this information? What can we do in eight seconds, to draw our
web visitors in? Here are some tips to help you pass the 8-second challenge:

Don’t make them wait.Make sure you website loads
quickly. 40% of people will abandon a website if it takes longer than three
seconds to load.

Make your content easy.Easy to navigate. Easy to read. Easy to scan. Put the most important
information upfront and outline your content with numbers or bullet points. Drill
down your key message and say it outright and quickly. There is no need to make
them wait for it.

Keep it short.Too much content will distract readers from your key messaging, so split
detailed content out into secondary pages for readers who are interested. Tell
the reader what they need and want to know, and no more. A difficult, but
important rule to follow.

Utilise visual content.We process images 60,000 times faster than we do text. Use images that
convey your key messaging and be strategic about where you place those images.
Choose a place that will draw the customer’s eye as they move down the screen.

Tell the reader what to do.If the purpose of your website is to convert visitors, you need to make
the path clear. Present clear action items for the visitor who is ready to buyandfor the visitor who is intrigued, but still not sure (an important, and often
overlooked, segment).

Now it’s time to take the challenge. Set your
stopwatch for eight seconds and type in your website URL. Does you messaging
get through before the buzzer goes off? Is it compelling? Does it inspire
action?

This simple
exercise will most likely get you thinking about you website design, layout and
key messaging. Hopefully, it will inspire you to make some strategic changes.

And for
those of you that have made it through to the end of this blog post, give
yourself a pat on the back!

Anyone can make one:For better or worse, anyone can write a blog post about anything they want. Everyone has a voice and the best voices will rise to the top.

The writer can show their personality:In blog posts, the writer has more leeway to add in their voice and personality than other types of writing.

Blogs are a great form of mass communication:You can help people, learn new things, entertain your audience—the possibilities are endless and amazing. Blogging opens up all of these to a very wide audience.You can make money:Get the right blog going and you can make a lot of money through advertising and sponsored posts.

It allows people to craft better thoughts:Instead of reading haphazard, uneducated Facebook statuses, it’s much better to see people’s thought process in a well-written blog post.

You can establish a community:Blogging allows you to connect with other individuals who share the same interests. Sharing ideas and opinions within your community helps establish yourself as a thought leader.

Good for SEO:Keeping content on your site fresh and relevant, you can use your blog to boost the search engine ranking (SEO) of your site and your business.It brings people back to your site:If your blog is strong enough and updated regularly, people will come back looking for more and bring traffic back to your site as well.

It’s free:It costs you a grand total of zero dollars to post to the blog, so if you have something to say, there’s nothing to stop you.You can establish yourself as a thought leader:A blog is a great place for your original thoughts, and it can be a wonderful way to show off your individuality. If people like your ideas, you can become a thought leader in your industry!